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She/her 27 northeastern brazilian I obsess about stuff

I think as a trans person you spend a lot of your life being told what you can and can't be and what the rules are, only to transition and realize that things aren't quite so black and white. This applies to relationship structures just as much as gender.

I thought it was known, that authors in the big manga industry generally don't fully own their own manga. It's property of the magazine and they're contracted to do what the corporation deems right.

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To dodge Japan's ban on fake-romance sales, hosts stopped saying the quiet part out loud. Now it's just "I like you" or "I want to see you," spoken by voice or video instead of text, so there's nothing on the record to prosecute.

Japan Tried to End the Host Club to Sex Work Pipeline. It Hasn't Worked

It's been a year since the crackdown, but data show that hosts clubs haven't changed. If anything, some say they've become "more malicious."

unseen-japan.com

ICYMI: A young woman went from a 1,000-yen all-you-can-drink session at a Kabukicho host club to 10 million yen in debt in six months. The tactics her host used are identical to those of professional scammers, and Japan’s new law hasn’t fixed the problem.

The Three Tactics Japan’s Hosts Use to Saddle Women with Soul-Crushing Debt

The rules an agreements meant to help save women from the worst abuses aren't helping, as clubs have already figured out a way around them.

unseen-japan.com

>Project Hail mary >Robot dreams >Kpop demon hunters >Hoppers Fujimoto written human & non-human bromance when? He sure seems to like it.

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